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> My point being, unless *everybody* is accepting the same kind of broken > requests, interoperability will actually be *worse*. But if indeed > everybody *is* accepting the same requests, it would have made more sense Well, I understand the point that Tim makes WRT HTML -- you're not doing the client any favors by accepting his buggy input, since it's bound to cause him grief later on. The computing equivalent of "a *real* friend would have told me about the kool-aid stains on my shirt!" But it seems you are making a different point. I am saying that WebDAV interop issues were not caused by any noble attempts to be "liberal", but rather by broken code. You seem to be responding that "yes, it was buggy for the big guy, but then everyone else had to follow suit and be liberal to achieve interop". I can understand this much, but what is the conclusion we should draw from this? What is the relevance to the debate about draconian XML processing rules? Are you suggesting that the smaller vendors would have been *better* to be draconian? At first glance, this seems like an issue of "the big guy creates defacto standards" rather than something directly related to Postel's law. What am I missing?
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